A "dead zone," like the Stephen King novel of the same name, is a
place where life can end. The horror meister probably wasn't thinking
about fish. Dead zones are areas of the ocean where marine life -
especially large quantities of fish - mysteriously die and where
future marine life may never have a chance.
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